Hannah Arendt
/ˌhænə ˈærənt/, /ˌhænə ˈɑːrənt/
/ˌhænə ˈɑːrənt/
- (1906-75) a US political writer, philosopher and teacher born in Germany. She was Jewish and escaped from the Nazis by going in 1933 to Paris and in 1941 to the US. Her major books included The Human Condition (1958), Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) and The Life of the Mind (1977).“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”